John Williams is an american musician and composer who are best known for his film scores. Some of his legendary scores includes Jaws, Star Wars, Harry Potter (1,2,3), E.T, Schindlers List and Indiana Jones.
Williams was born in New York in a very musical family. John Williams studied piano at the Juliard School and moved to Los Angeles to work as a film studio orchestrator and a studio pianist. His first film composition was in 1958 for the movie Daddy-O, but he soon achived recognition in Hollywood. In 1974 cooperated he on the movie "The Sugerland Express" with director Steven Spielberg. Williams have since composed the music for almost all of Spielbergs best known films.
John Williams have been nominated for 50 academy awards, which makes him the second most nominated individual, after Walt Disney. His first nomination was for Valley of the Dolls in 1967. His first win was in 1971 for Fiddler on the roof. His second academy award was for the well known, two note, suspencion score, in the movie Jaws. His third academy award was for the even better known score in Star Wars from 1977. His 50th academy award nomination was in 2015 for the new Star wars movie, The Force awakens. His next cooperation with Spielberg will be the movie "BFG" which permiers in 2016.
Happy Birthday, John Williams!
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| John Williams at the Boston Pops, 28 May 2011, photo by Chris Devers |
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